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A Free Press For A Free People Since 1997Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:12:15 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2Obama plan only averts 0.001 degree of warminghttp://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/obama-plan-only-averts-0-001-degree-of-warming/
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/obama-plan-only-averts-0-001-degree-of-warming/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:12:13 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1854785(DAILYCALLER) — President Barack Obama formally submitted his plan to cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to the U.N. Tuesday and a climate scientists has already pointed out a glaring problem: The plan will have virtually no impact on global temperatures.

Obama’s carbon dioxide reduction plan commits the U.S. to 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 — a promise he made last year to secure a pledge from China to reduce its own emissions.

But Obama’s plan will only avert 0.001 degrees Celsius of global temperature rises a year, according to climate scientist Chip Knappenberger with the libertarian Cato Institute.

]]>http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/obama-plan-only-averts-0-001-degree-of-warming/feed/0Dow off triple digitshttp://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/dow-off-triple-digits-2/
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/dow-off-triple-digits-2/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:09:18 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1854765(CNBC) — U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday, giving back some of Monday’s major gains, as investors eyed mixed economic data and the end of the first quarter.

The Dow Jones industrial average failed to post gains for the first quarter. The blue chip index closed down nearly 200 points.

“The market is realizing that the general economic conditions are challenging,” said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Boston Private Wealth. “It’s mainly the domestic data and you’re seeing activity in the Treasury market with yields moving lower.”

“I think everyone’s nervous about what’s coming (next) quarter. To me the path of least resistance seems down,” said Maris Ogg, president of Tower Bridge Advisors. “Next month pretty (neutral) until people get an idea where the new estimates for the year are.”

Did Vice President Joe Biden have a reason to warn American Jews they are really only safe in one country, Israel?

The question has been asked by a prominent American magazine: “Is it time for the Jews to leave Europe?”

The Atlantic posed the question in its April cover story by Jewish writer Jeffrey Goldberg, citing the rise of right-wing fascists and radicalized Islamists on the European continent.

Of course the article made no mention of the disturbing rise in anti-Semitism among leftists on college campuses. But Goldberg’s inclusion of an anecdote involving U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is stirring a new debate that is causing some to ask, “Is it time for the Jews to leave America?”

Biden, according to Goldberg, made a comment last fall that struck those to whom it was addressed as strange.

The stage was a Rosh Hashanah party Biden hosted for senior American Jewish leaders in September.

According to Goldberg’s report, Biden recounted his first meeting with former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who told the then U.S. senator that the Jews’ secret weapon in Israel’s war for survival was that they had no place else to go.

“You understand in your bones that no matter how hospitable, no matter how consequential, no matter how engaged, no matter how deeply involved you are in the United States … there is really only one absolute guarantee, and that’s the state of Israel,” Biden reportedly told the room full of surprised Jewish leaders.

Israel Today magazine took the position that Biden’s comments may have been a type of prophetic warning to American Jewry, even if he didn’t fully realize the significance of his statement.

After all, who is better suited to deliver such a hard message to the Jews of America than a Democratic leader, since Jewish Americans tend to vote overwhelmingly for liberal Democrats?

“Of course, it can and has been argued that Biden’s point of view is correct, and that ultimately even the Jews of America will have no choice but to flee to the relative safety of Israel,” the magazine reported. “Much has been made of rising anti-Semitism in Europe, but the same is true of the United States of late. The annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents published by the Anti-Defamation League revealed a 21 percent increase in anti-Semitism incidents in the U.S. in 2014.”

Biden, who is known for his verbal gaffes, could have had yet another case of that classic Biden disease, called open mouth, insert foot. Or, as Israel Today suggests, “they might also be a very prescient warning of things to come.”

WND reported in February that the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe was not happening in a vacuum. It is happening in America as well.

A Common Core lesson plan required eighth-grade students in a California school district last year to question whether the Holocaust ever happened.

The eight-page assignment asked students to weigh arguments on whether the Holocaust was an “actual event” or a “propaganda tool that was used for monetary gain.” It was justified as an exercise in “critical thinking.”

At the University of California at Davis, just last month it was reported that Jew-hating thugs painted swastikas on a Jewish fraternity house. Jewish students on campus have also been harangued by Muslims screaming “Allahu Akbar,” the war cry of jihad.

Bible teacher and author/filmmaker Joel Richardson, whose latest book discusses anti-Semitism under the title “When a Jew Rules the World,” doesn’t like what he is seeing on college campuses across America.

“Now you have this trend particularly in the youth that’s really trending back toward supersessionism and replacement theology, and it’s cast as being justice for the oppressed and standing with the Palestinians,” he told WND in February.

The most active player in fomenting hostility toward Israel on U.S. college campuses is the Muslim Student Association. The MSA has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been banned or suppressed in many countries including Israel, Russia, Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Yet the Brotherhood has been coddled by the Obama administration as a legitimate voice for all Muslims.

The rise in attacks on Jewish students, and the recent pressure by the MSA to have UC Davis divest of all companies that do business with Israel, led one member of the university’s student senate last month to proclaim that “Hamas and Shariah law have taken over UC Davis.”

“They boycott Israel and call it divestment, not just of a nation but of an actual people, and they’re giving comfort and aid to some of the most genocidal hatred that the world has ever known in Islamic extremism,” Richardson said.

The extent of the foothold that radical Islamist groups have established on college campuses is also evident in two recent reports, one from Cornell university in Pennsylvania and the other from Barry University in Miami, in which university officials appear to condone student groups that wish to support the Islamic State, also called ISIS.

Agitation and propaganda attacks often precede physical attacks. That’s what happened in Germany, Russia and other countries where European Jewry has come under the most vicious attacks — first it became trendy to make verbal assaults. Now it’s happening in America. Maybe Biden’s strange comment should be dismissed as just another slip of the tongue? Or, perhaps he knows something about what’s coming to America in the years ahead?

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http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/facebook-accused-of-tracking-all-users/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 18:58:09 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1854545(INDEPENDENT) — A new report claims that Facebook secretly installs tracking cookies on users’ computers, allowing them to follow users around the internet even after they’ve left the website, deleted their account and requested to be no longer followed.

Academic researchers said that the report showed that the company was breaking European law with its tracking policies. The law requires that users are told if their computers are receiving cookies except for specific circumstances.

Facebook’s tracking — which it does so that it can tailor advertising — involves putting cookies or small pieces of software on users’ computers, so that they can then be followed around the internet. Such technology is used by almost every website, but European law requires that users are told if they are being given cookies or being tracked. Companies don’t have to tell users if the cookies are required to connect to a service or if they are needed to give the user information that they have specifically requested.

]]>http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/facebook-accused-of-tracking-all-users/feed/0Man calls 9-1-1 a dozen times about beer billhttp://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/man-calls-9-1-1-a-dozen-times-about-beer-bill/
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/man-calls-9-1-1-a-dozen-times-about-beer-bill/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 18:53:36 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1854515(KXLY) — POST FALLS, Idaho – A Post Falls man faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for calling 911 twelve times early Monday morning. His emergency: He thought a bar overcharged him for his beer.

“He was demanding that the place he got kicked out of didn’t over charge him for him being down there,” Post Falls Police Captain Pat Knight said.

According to the police report, Phillip Poissonnier was kicked out of Club Tequila around 1:13 a.m. An officer responded to give him a courtesy ride home, but apparently that wasn’t enough.

]]>http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/man-calls-9-1-1-a-dozen-times-about-beer-bill/feed/0IRS: Abortions deductible, but not stillborn babieshttp://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/irs-abortions-deductible-but-not-stillborn-babies/
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/irs-abortions-deductible-but-not-stillborn-babies/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 18:36:38 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1854465(LIFENEWS) — It’s tax time and millions of Americans are looking for extra deductions to get the maximum refund possible. Some Americans may be surprised to know that, if they aborted their baby last year, they’re eligible for a deduction.

Did you know that abortions are apparently eligible for a tax deduction? That appears to be true, so says the IRS.

So what does the IRS say about deducting the cost of killing your child? “You can include in medical expenses the amount you pay for a legal abortion,” it says.

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http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/va-chief-misses-80-days-still-collects-179000/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 18:20:33 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1854365(WASHINGTONEXAMINER) — DeWayne Hamlin, the top official of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Puerto Rico hospital, was absent from the hospital some 80 days in a one-year period, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Hamlin was paid $179,700 despite being absent from the hospital approximately one in three business days last year, according to “delegation of authority” documents by which he temporarily transferred his job responsibilities to deputies.

In April 2014, for example, he was absent from the 10th to the 18th, then from the 24th to the 27th. He also submitted a delegation document saying he would be gone the 28th and 29th. For part of that time, he was traveling to Florida, where he previously lived. He was arrested by Florida police while sitting in his car at 2:00 a.m. on the 26th.

Police said that he smelled of alcohol, twice refused to take a breath test, and that they found oxycodone for which he did not have a prescription. He reportedly refused to say where he got the painkiller.

]]>http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/va-chief-misses-80-days-still-collects-179000/feed/0IRS ignoring 60% of taxpayer callshttp://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/irs-ignoring-60-percent-of-taxpayers-calls/
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/irs-ignoring-60-percent-of-taxpayers-calls/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 17:56:34 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1854125(WASHINGTON TIMES) — IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday that service at his agency has gotten so bad that they are ignoring more than 60 percent of taxpayers’ phone calls during this tax season.

Speaking at the National Press Club, Mr. Koskinen pleaded with more money, saying a budget boost would help them staff their overwhelmed customer service lines. He also said it would help reverse staffing cuts in their compliance division, where he said the government will lose $2 billion this year in money it would otherwise have been able to collect if it had better staffing.

Congress has cut or held the agency’s funding static for several years now, with lawmakers deeming the agency recalcitrant in solving problems, and unrepentant for having targeted tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny.

]]>http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/irs-ignoring-60-percent-of-taxpayers-calls/feed/0House wants Hillary to testify about emailshttp://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/house-wants-hillary-to-testify-about-emails/
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/03/house-wants-hillary-to-testify-about-emails/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 17:17:43 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1853885(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) — A House panel Tuesday formally requested Hillary Clinton to testify about the private server and email account she used while serving as secretary of state.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, sent a request to Clinton’s personal attorney, David E. Kendall, requesting that Clinton appear before the committee no later than May 1 for a transcribed interview about the server and email.

The request comes after Kendall told Gowdy that the server had been wiped clean and that it would be impossible to recover the 30,000 emails Clinton deleted last year.

Gowdy, in his request to Kendall, also asked Clinton to “reconsider” her refusal to turn over the server to a neutral third party, which he called “highly unusual, if not unprecedented.”

The U.S. Department of Justice, for the first time in history, has cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to sue a university over claims administrators wrongfully denied a promotion and tenure to a professor who was born a male but lives as a female.

Rachel Tudor, a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University who lives as a transgender woman, applied for the promotion during the 2009-2010 academic year, but was denied, Buzz Feed reported. Then, she allegedly was denied from reapplying the next year due to the transgender issue.

Now the Justice Department has stepped into the issue, citing the 1964 Civil Rights Act as cause for action – a first for the federal agency, which has never formally tied transgender discrimination to the legislation.

In December 2014, however, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Justice Department would start using the Civil Rights Act to pursue discrimination charges relating to gender choice cases – including transgender discrimination.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been advocating the move since 2012.

The Civil Rights Act bars discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender activists have long fought for an interpretation of the law that would benefit them specifically.